Lest he take also of the tree of life
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Καὶ εἶπεν Κύριος ὁ θεός Ἰδοὺ Ἀδὰμ γέγονεν ὡς εἷς ἐξ ἡμῶν, τοῦ γινώσκειν καλὸν καὶ πονηρόν· καὶ νῦν μή ποτε ἐκτείνῃ τὴν χεῖρα καὶ λάβῃ τοῦ ξύλου τῆς ζωῆς καὶ φάγῃ, καὶ ζήσεται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.
God's own words confirm, remarkably, the truth inside the serpent's half-lie: "Adam has become as one of us, knowing good and evil" repeats almost exactly the serpent's promise of v.5. What God forecloses now is not that knowledge — already gained — but immortality gained the same wrong way: eating from the tree of life while estranged, and so living forever in the fallen condition just described, rather than being permitted the far harder road toward a life freely re-offered later (cf. Rev 22:2,14, where the tree of life reappears, now open to "those who wash their robes").
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